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• American John Thayer is the only known first-class cricketer to have died on the RMS Titanic?
• Irish cricketer Leslie Kidd played his first first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and played his last against them?
• cricketers Charles Winter, Charles Winter, and Charles Winter all failed to make double-figure scores when batting on their first-class debuts?
• Sydney Rippon, father of a UK Cabinet minister, played in a first-class cricket match under an assumed name so that his employer, the Inland Revenue, would not find out?
• Lennard Stokes, a 19th-century rugby union international who captained England on five occasions, also played first-class cricket for Kent and later worked as a surgeon?
• Jim Hutchinson, who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
• Ken Cranston began playing Test cricket for the English cricket team within 8 weeks after his debut in first-class cricket in 1947, but retired in 1948 to concentrate on his career as a dentist?
• despite describing county cricket as being "a little over done", Joseph Gibbs made five first-class appearances for Somerset County Cricket Club?
• in 1935, David Townsend was the last England Test cricketer not to have played for one of the English first-class cricket counties?
• the father and two brothers of Pakistani cricketer Wasim Raja also played first-class cricket?
• when Ireland bowler Peter Connell took a hat-trick on his debut in first-class cricket, he was the first player to do so in an international match?
• the Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the International Cricket Council until 1993, despite having played first-class cricket matches since 1902, including games against Scotland, Australia and New Zealand?
• the 1888/9 South African cricket season marks the beginning of first-class cricket in South Africa?
• in 1975 Zimbabwean Kantilal Kanjee became the first non-white umpire to stand in a first-class cricket match in South Africa?
• in a 1933 first-class cricket match, Jack Lee claimed the wicket of his older brother Harry, with the catch being taken by younger brother Frank?
• Henry Martyn was described by Wisden as "one of the finest wicket-keepers ever seen in first-class cricket"?
• Ernie Robson played his final first-class cricket match for Somerset aged 53, less than a year before his death?
• Kermit Roosevelt's co-brother-in-law Mervyn Herbert played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club and died in the British Embassy in Rome, Italy?
• Philadelphian Nelson Graves was only 14 years old when he made his first-class cricket debut?
• Irish cricketer Scott Huey was the last bowler to dismiss Sir Len Hutton in first-class cricket?
• Hampshire and England cricketer Derek Shackleton took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket?
• first-class cricketer Bryan Lobb was such a poor judge of a run that he was once run out by a fielder who overtook him as he strolled down the wicket?
• Glamorgan County Cricket Club's 1921 promotion to first-class status was strongly aided by early fund-raisers organised by Vernon Hill?
• Abhimanyu Mithun was called up to the India Test squad only ten weeks after making his first-class cricket debut?
• Adrienne Beames, the daughter of Australian rules footballer, first-class cricketer, and journalist Percy Beames, was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon?
• Bob McLean, who is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, also played first-class cricket and scored a double century in the Sheffield Shield?
• Edward Cawston made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex whilst he was still at school?
• Bill Ashdown is the only person to have played first-class cricket both before the First World War and after the Second World War?
• Andrew Jordaan was the first cricketer to be timed out in a first-class match after poor weather delayed him in reaching the ground to start his innings?
• Alex Cusack, on his debut in first-class cricket, partnered with Andre Botha to break a 111 year record?
• Alexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 more first-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to be amputated after World War I?
• English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?